I have a dedicated server with Dreamnet ( http://www.dncsi.com), and have
been having numerous problems, after months I decided at the begining of the
week to document everything in detail...

http://martinjgreen.blogspot.com/

Bear in mind, the info is only from a few days, but is largely
representative of everyday/week/month for the last 6 months.

Any ideas?

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"Neo" <Neo@nospam.come-to-chat.com> wrote:

> Bear in mind, the info is only from a few days, but is largely
> representative of everyday/week/month for the last 6 months.
>
> Any ideas?

You've either been rooted or have dodgy hardware (pick one).

The network issues can wait until your sort out your
random rebooting problems.

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George Georgakis-geeg AT tripleg net au-http://www.tripleg.net.au/
SlackBuild Central - http://slackpack.tripleg.net.au/

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Neo <Neo@come-to-chat.com> says...
>
>I have a dedicated server with [deleted], and have
>been having numerous problems, after months I decided at the begining of the
>week to document everything in detail...
>
>http://[deleted]
>
>Bear in mind, the info is only from a few days, but is largely
>representative of everyday/week/month for the last 6 months.

I would assume that anyone who is so clueless that he asks
questions about problems with his webhosting vendor on a
newgroup that's dedicated to slackware or to IRC is probably
clueless in other areas of his life as well. I suggest that
you contact the people who are in charge of the Internet and
ask them for help.

You and your unreliable webhosting service deserve each other.

I done business with DreamNet and Im DONE with it !!!

I was with DreamNet for like 6 or 8 months and I left them anyway.

their connection SUCKS anyway.

my server always dying weekly....

I had to run away from them.

MOST shell companies are SUCKY !





On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 06:29:04 -0000, "Neo"
<Neo@nospam.come-to-chat.com> wrote:

>I have a dedicated server with Dreamnet ( http://www.dncsi.com), and have
>been having numerous problems, after months I decided at the begining of the
>week to document everything in detail...
>
>http://martinjgreen.blogspot.com/
>
>Bear in mind, the info is only from a few days, but is largely
>representative of everyday/week/month for the last 6 months.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>

"George Georgakis" <geeg@tripleg.GO.AWAY.SPAMMERS.net.au> wrote in message
news:Xns947FDE5343E34geegstriplegGOAWAYSP@203.50.2 .94...
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> "Neo" <Neo@nospam.come-to-chat.com> wrote:
>
> > Bear in mind, the info is only from a few days, but is largely
> > representative of everyday/week/month for the last 6 months.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> You've either been rooted or have dodgy hardware (pick one).
Neither... I have a dodgy provider

> The network issues can wait until your sort out your
> random rebooting problems.
See above

< @ . > wrote in message news:JpudnW7w1sSTgoTdRVn-ug@speakeasy.net...
>
> Neo <Neo@come-to-chat.com> says...
> >
> >I have a dedicated server with [deleted], and have
> >been having numerous problems, after months I decided at the begining of
the
> >week to document everything in detail...
> >
> >http://[deleted]
> >
> >Bear in mind, the info is only from a few days, but is largely
> >representative of everyday/week/month for the last 6 months.
>
> I would assume that anyone who is so clueless that he asks
> questions about problems with his webhosting vendor on a
> newgroup that's dedicated to slackware or to IRC is probably
> clueless in other areas of his life as well. I suggest that
> you contact the people who are in charge of the Internet and
> ask them for help.
A server that runs linux/slackware and provides mainly IRC Services would
seem in fact wholly relevant. I wasn't really asking anything other than a
rhetorical question since I'm pretty much sure already of the source of the
problem. I was merely looking for anyone with similar problems. But then I
wouldn't expect anything other than trolling from an idiot who doesn't even
have the balls to leave his name.

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"Neo" <Neo@nospam.come-to-chat.com> wrote:

>> You've either been rooted or have dodgy hardware (pick one).
> Neither... I have a dodgy provider

OK. I read this:

"4am GMT - Server was rebooted again for no apparent reason.
No warning, email or anything prior to reboot... I don't think
the server has managed to get past 7 days uptime recently without
being rebooted (again for no apparent reason)"

to mean that your own server was randomly rebooting.

If I had the number of problems you're having with your provider,
I'd immediately take my business elsewhere. Find a provider
that's willing to provide transparent feedback.

BTW, how does asking other people if THEY have problems fix
YOUR problem? You've already established it IS your provider.
What are you looking for, a collection of "me-too"s?

- --
George Georgakis-geeg AT tripleg net au-http://www.tripleg.net.au/
SlackBuild Central - http://slackpack.tripleg.net.au/

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"George Georgakis" <geeg@tripleg.GO.AWAY.SPAMMERS.net.au> wrote in message
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> BTW, how does asking other people if THEY have problems fix
> YOUR problem? You've already established it IS your provider.
> What are you looking for, a collection of "me-too"s?


I guess the idea is that if other providers are as bad or worse, there's
no point in changing and probably no point in complaining either. If other
providers are significantly better, then there probably is a good reason to
change.

Sometimes people just don't know what's reasonable and what's not. One
symptom is that people complain about things that are generally considered
perfectly acceptable. Another is that they don't have the confidence to
complain about things that really are unreasonable.

If this is typical, he probably has no cause to break his contract, for
example. If it's not what a person would reasonably expect, he well may.

DS

"George Georgakis" <geeg@tripleg.GO.AWAY.SPAMMERS.net.au> wrote in message
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> "Neo" <Neo@nospam.come-to-chat.com> wrote:
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> >> You've either been rooted or have dodgy hardware (pick one).
> > Neither... I have a dodgy provider
>
> OK. I read this:
>
> "4am GMT - Server was rebooted again for no apparent reason.
> No warning, email or anything prior to reboot... I don't think
> the server has managed to get past 7 days uptime recently without
> being rebooted (again for no apparent reason)"
>
> to mean that your own server was randomly rebooting.

It is... but the specific reason is sometimes clear, sometimes otherwise.
For instance, sometimes it gets rebooted for no reason and I email them and
get one of various reasons. Other times I find its been rebooted and have no
idea why.

> If I had the number of problems you're having with your provider,
> I'd immediately take my business elsewhere. Find a provider
> that's willing to provide transparent feedback.

> BTW, how does asking other people if THEY have problems fix
> YOUR problem? You've already established it IS your provider.
> What are you looking for, a collection of "me-too"s?

Well, for the first part I'm interested in whether other people are still
having problems with dreamnet... as I know they've had problems in the past.
They're popular for ircd shells and I'm interested to know is it just me or
is this a wider problem? I'm also considering the possibility that it may be
something other than provider problems; clearly some of them are, but in
posting to slackware (which i frequent anyways) I'm also interested if
anyone has had similar problems under slackware (although highly unlikely,
I've been running various flavours of slackware, and indeed other flavours
of linux, for years with no similar problems)

I'm going to spend the weekend going through the logs with a fine tooth comb
to see if I can derive anything useful. Ultimately I'd like colo but
unfortunately its not something I can afford atm.

"David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> wrote in message
news:bvc0ni$529$1@nntp.webmaster.com...
>
> "George Georgakis" <geeg@tripleg.GO.AWAY.SPAMMERS.net.au> wrote in message
> news:Xns94804BBC87782geegstriplegGOAWAYSP@203.50.2 .94...
>
> > BTW, how does asking other people if THEY have problems fix
> > YOUR problem? You've already established it IS your provider.
> > What are you looking for, a collection of "me-too"s?
>
>
> I guess the idea is that if other providers are as bad or worse,
there's
> no point in changing and probably no point in complaining either. If other
> providers are significantly better, then there probably is a good reason
to
> change.
>
> Sometimes people just don't know what's reasonable and what's not. One
> symptom is that people complain about things that are generally considered
> perfectly acceptable. Another is that they don't have the confidence to
> complain about things that really are unreasonable.
>
> If this is typical, he probably has no cause to break his contract,
for
> example. If it's not what a person would reasonably expect, he well may.

Also because there's some extremely knowledgable, intelligent and
experienced people in this group (and indeed alt.os.slackware) who would not
only know what to expect, but may have an idea what is causing the problems.

I personally can't think of any reason why someone would block traffic to
the effect that the intial three way tcp handshaking completes, (or perhaps
partially completes. ie SYN, 1st SYN/ACK) but the connection gets no further
(Note: I haven't tried UDP, but since the only thing running on UDP is dns
and we have 4 secondaries anyways, this isn't much of a problem) If there's
a dos attack on an ip it's common practice to null route it, but why allow
parts of traffic but not others to what appears to be either an entire ip
range or part of an ip range?